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Post number 4554

bkdelong — Thu, 30 Nov 2000 08:52:20 -0800

Tomorrow is World Aids Day. How are you participating?

By: ethylene

ethylene — Thu, 30 Nov 2000 09:21:34 -0800

well i certainly won't be online and i will be lighting a candle in conjunction with other celerations and vigils for all those who passed i don't know if i can't make art i figure that since it's for myself it's my own act of requiem

By: ethylene

ethylene — Thu, 30 Nov 2000 10:08:55 -0800

oh, i just posted the bradlands link on some boards some friends of mine have lost people not to aids but all the same we're lighting candles for all

By: bradlands

bradlands — Thu, 30 Nov 2000 10:43:37 -0800

I do a lot of peer education work around HIV/AIDS, so the past two or three weeks have found me speaking to college and high school students in classrooms and community centers, sometimes with panels from the AIDS Memorial Quilt in tow. On World AIDS Day, three websites I administer for local arts organizations will be taking part in the Day Without Art Web Action and, of course, The BradLands and a bunch of new friends will also be observing A Day With(out) Weblogs with bunches of linky love. Friday evening, there's a multi-faith prayer service here in St. Louis at Central Reform Congregation and, finally, my theatre is -- ironically, for A Day With(out) Art -- opening Yasmina Reza's play ART with a moment of silent remembrance, a lobby exhibition by local artists and educational activities by local AIDS service groups. (I hope, at some point, to get a little shut-eye before and after. :-)

By: ethylene

ethylene — Thu, 30 Nov 2000 11:29:20 -0800

also (hope i'm not being too verbose) I just entered a story for a contest on holidays on the writer's bbs about this being a holiday

By: likorish

likorish — Thu, 30 Nov 2000 12:29:03 -0800

By hugging my brother.

By: fable

fable — Thu, 30 Nov 2000 13:40:06 -0800

By having unprotected sex.

By: ethylene

ethylene — Thu, 30 Nov 2000 16:42:50 -0800

i don't know your definition of sex but you suck };P

By: davidgentle

davidgentle — Thu, 30 Nov 2000 16:47:07 -0800

By posting information on my weblog about diseases that people who are educated and rich enough to read a weblog don't know about? I.e. stuff other than H.I.V.?

By: Mr. skullhead

Mr. skullhead — Thu, 30 Nov 2000 17:17:20 -0800

I'm not.

By: bradlands

bradlands — Thu, 30 Nov 2000 17:31:33 -0800

So far, I think I like Cecily's idea best of all. I'm hoping for lots of hugs tomorrow too. ;-)

By: ZachsMind

ZachsMind — Thu, 30 Nov 2000 18:14:44 -0800

World Aids Day? How sick. Holidays are supposed to be for celebrating something worthwhile. Mother's Day celebrates mothers. Valentine's Day celebrates romance and love. World AIDS Day celebrates the fact that we have a plague killing people even as you read this. Do we have an E Coli Virus Day? I'd hate to see the happy hour.

By: likorish

likorish — Thu, 30 Nov 2000 19:18:14 -0800

I don't think it's a holiday, so much as it's a day for reflecting upon the ways in which this plague has changed our lives and made us revisit a few of our previously held notions. Perhaps "celebrating" is the wrong word here -- would "commemorating" be a better choice?

By: dnash

dnash — Thu, 30 Nov 2000 21:32:36 -0800

As part of Day Without Weblogs, I put up a quote from a writer with AIDS. It's from 1991, and reflects the deep anger that surrounded the disease at that time, pre-protease inhibitor "cocktails." But given that we may be moving into a government that will be a bad carbon copy of the one we had then, it seemed appropriate to be reminded of where we've been, so as hopefully to not go back there.

By: ethylene

ethylene — Thu, 30 Nov 2000 21:55:08 -0800

valentine's day and mother's day are commercial "holidays" both initiated by hallmark or some such commemoration is an apt word but it's not aids being celerbated but the people, aids is just getting on air time other commemorations are also enprocess for remembrance, period. To celebrate or merely take pause for anyone who has passed, whether from illness, violence, or whatever. veteran's day memorial day the day of the dead the only reason i construed it as a holiday was to get a story in as an entry for a story contest whose topic was holidays holy day meaning this particular family on this particular day was celebrating it was a holiday becuase i didn't feel like writing about christmas, etc. and i was trying to get another link back to everyone else observing it so there now that's just me (and i'm all techy from cramming for this other contest i was suppose to enter that happens to be a major pain in the ass...)

By: fraying

fraying — Thu, 30 Nov 2000 23:23:56 -0800

By telling stories.